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Jailed Pregnant Nigerian-Born Drug Trafficking Briton Returns To UK To Give Birth
9 August 2009
Lagos — A 20-year-old Nigerian-born British, Samantha Orobator, who was sentenced to life jail-term in Lagos for drug trafficking, returned to London on Friday to give birth and serve the rest of her jail-term. A heavily pregnant Orobator flew back into Heathrow airport, where she was received by the police and taken to Holloway Prison, a north London women's jail; as her lawyers blasted her 'disgraceful show trial conviction'. Wearing a white knitted hat, Orobator seemed in high spirits as she was escorted away. She pleaded guilty to smuggling heroin and would have faced the death penalty in Laos if she had not been pregnant. Due to give birth within weeks, she was handed over to officials of Ministry of Justice in Laos and flown home via Bangkok. The Foreign Office has said Orobator would "serve out her sentence in Britain". However, her lawyers, Reprieve, a legal charity that fights human rights cases, said it would be 'truly shocking' for Britain to enforce her conviction. "To call the Lao legal proceedings, a kangaroo court would be an offence to the kangaroo family," said Reprieve Director, Clive Stafford Smith. "The Lao government consistently violated Samantha's legal rights, including coercing her into signing statements by withholding her right to a trial. "She was at no point allowed confidential access to independent legal counsel and was prevented from defending herself in court. "How can we justify throwing someone in prison when we don't even know the basic facts of the case?" Orobator was arrested last August at the Lao capital Vientiane's Wattay airport, trying to board aircraft to Thailand.
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